Blenkinsop Lake bridge design and construction, District of Saanich, Victoria, BC.

Author(s)
Rushforth, A.J. McQuarrie, E. Munday, D. Bester, N. Pease, C. Fleming, G. & Novak, C.
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Abstract

The Victoria urban region has developed over 100 km of recreational trails along disused railway right-of-ways. A major gap in this system occurred at the Blenkinsop Lake where the original timber trestle had been demolished. This paper describes the public and engineering process in the planning and rebuilding of a new bridge (282 m long). A major influence was the impact of construction on the environment and protection of avia habitat and environmental monitoring was implemented. The constructor was required to construct the bridge from spans already completed and no mechanical equipment was allowed on the adjacent wetlands. Construction cost was $850,000. Opened in the fall of 2000, its use has exceeded the original projections. (Author/publisher)

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C 21609 (In: C 21603 CD-ROM) /15 /53 / ITRD E201020
Source

In: Partnering for success in transportation : proceedings of the 2001 annual conference and exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada TAC, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 16-19, 2001, Pp-

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